The MARQ hosts the conference "The city of things: material culture in the construction of cities in medieval Europe".

The Archaeological Museum of Alicante, MARQ, is organising an international conference this week, on 25 and 26 October, on the study of material culture in the construction of cities in medieval Europe. The participating scientists and researchers will provide a wide range of evidence that identifies multiple aspects of how the urban and domestic space of men and women was constructed in European cities from the 13th to the 15th centuries.

The speakers participating in the conference come from the Universities of Antwerp (Belgium), Siena (Italy), York (United Kingdom) and Évora (Portugal), as well as from the Spanish Universities Complutense de Madrid, Lleida, Mallorca, Murcia, Granada, Valencia and Alicante. The seminar will be directed by José Luis Menéndez Fueyo, from the MARQ Archaeological Museum of Alicante and Juan Vicente García Marsilla, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Valencia. Teresa Izquierdo Perales and Encarnación Montero Tortajada, both professors at the University of Valencia, will act as secretaries.

Juan de Dios Navarro Caballero, deputy for Culture and vice-president of the MARQ Foundation, who will preside over the official opening ceremony of the congress, stressed "the importance of holding this type of meeting at the MARQ, which places our province at the forefront of research, study and dissemination of cultural heritage and, in this specific case, of the configuration of European territory in the Middle Ages, even more so, because this period built an important part of the pillars of today's Europe". 

According to the Alicante archaeologist, a specialist in medieval,  José Luis Menéndez FueyoThe conference co-director, exhibition technician at the MARQ's Exhibitions and Dissemination Unit and PhD in History, "far from this biased view of a historical period," he said. dark, decadent, uncivilised and full of superstitions, Europe will build the pillars of its identity in the medieval centuries through the cities, towns and places of the European territory, giving birth to an extraordinary period of creative and cultural development, full of social, economic, religious and political changes and mutations which today identify us all as members of the same European culture".

On-site registration has already closed as the number of participants has reached capacity, however, it will be possible to follow the live streaming via the following link THE CITY OF THINGS - MARQ Scientific Meetings (marqalicante.com).